<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On Jul 25, 2016, at 11:46 AM, Chandler Carruth via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" class="">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class="">A few basic rules to get accepted are if:<br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
* the target exists and can be easily purchased / emulated for<br class="">
investigating problems,<br class="">
* there are official documents / specs published by the project /<br class="">
company that maintains the targets,<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Most of your list makes a lot of sense to me Renato, but these two items don't really.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think a large number of targets in tree would be *extremely* hard to purchase and directly investigate problems. As examples:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Hexagon</div><div class="">- SystemZ</div><div class="">- XCore</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'm sure it is theoretically possible for me to acquire such a system and test on it, but the amount of time and energy it would take make it a practical impossibility.</div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I agree, but it isn’t completely unreasonable to expect a simulator to be available.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Chris</div></body></html>